CUSTODY FIGHT TOOK TOLL ON LAURA JEAN ACKERSON

A FORMER boyfriend of murdered North Carolina mom Laura Jean Ackerson said that in recent emails she described how bitter her custody fight was. Detectives found Ackerson's dismembered remains in Texas Wednesday. She had been reported missing July 18. Her former boyfriend and the father of her two boys, aged 3 and 2, Grant Ruffin Hayes, 32, and his wife Amanda Perry hayes, 39, have been charged with murder.
James Harrison--who dated the pretty brunette from 2005 to 2008--said

MISSING CELINA CASS, 11, 'WOULDN'T HAVE RUN AWAY'

CELINA CASS would never have gone with a stranger, friends said. The missing 11-year-old New Hampshire girl was just too painfully shy. Cass--who lives near the Canadian border--was last seen in her bedroom Monday night. Kayla Baglio said: “She was very shy. If she didn’t know you she would look to her older sister to make sure you were okay."
So anyone in her small village of 900 who knows her--and that's pretty much everyone--doubts she willing went with the person who likely abducted her. And they don't think she ran away either.
The investigation, now aided by the FBI, has sent

COLD CASE USA MAKES ITS DEBUT TUESDAY!

IN THE USA, there are tens of thousands of unsolved murders, disappearances and killers who've gotten away with it. We want to make a difference. CRIME SCENE USA is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a brand new blog: Cold Case USA. Cold Case USA will focus on America's unsolved crimes, its missing people and finding its most heinous criminals. We debut Tuesday.

COPS EXHUME BODY OF MARIA RIDULPH; SLAIN IN 1957

DETECTIVES in Illinois exhumed the body of Maria Ridulph--the 7-year-old girl murdered in 1957. Cops are hoping that modern science will help the case they're building against the man they believe raped and murdered her. Jack Daniel McCullough, now 71, was arrested last week in the grisly slaying that garnered national headlines at the time. He is a former police officer in the Seattle area and has denied any involvement.
State's Attorney Clay Campbell said: "Suffice to say science has advanced greatly, thankfully, since that time and we're hoping that advancement in science can assist us in our investigation of this case."
Maria disappeared while playing with a pal near her home, 60 miles west of Chicago. Her body was discovered five months later after spring thaw

SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS! WHAT DO YOU SAY?

WORDS quite simply fail us. What do you say about this guy? Are those real deformities? Is his head really that brutal or is just being a kidder and putting us all on. That's a mystery for the books.

REVEALED: LUCKY BREAK IN LAUREN GIDDINGS CASE

LAUREN GIDDINGS escaped being a missing person for eternity by a mere couple of hours. cops revealed. The pretty blonde law student was murdered and dismembered June 25, her remains in garbage bags ready to be picked up. Fortunately, family and friends became concerned and cops were quickly on the scene the next morning as fears mounted.
They found Giddings’ torso stuffed in a residential trash bins with wheels on it just feet from her front door at 9 a.m. on June 30. A couple of hours later and the bins--and evidence--would have been gone.
Macon Police Chief Mike Burns said: “It’d have been a missing person from here on out. I think we beat trash day by two hours. When I got

ERIC GRUMPELT LIVED WITH DEAD GIRLFRIEND: COPS

CRAZY ERIK

A CRAZY creep beat his girlfriend to death and then lived with her corpse for more than two months, cops say.
Erick Charles Grumpelt reportedly told investigators that he was furious when Malinda Raya, 39, told him she had cheated with other men in his bed.
So he smashed her several times in the stomach, before leaving her for a while.
But when he returned she was unresponsive, so he panicked and dragged her body under the bed, where her body gradually decomposed, reports KPHO.
As the stench grew worse, he wrapped sheets around the body and placed a number of carpet fresheners.

GORGEOUS STUDENTS FIND SPY CAMS IN CONDO

SPIED ON

TWO gorgeous foreign students were appalled to discover that the smoke detectors in their apartment were actually hidden cameras.   Everything  Vanya Amokovareva, 22, and 23-year-old Ralitsa Dzhambazova did in their Tampa apartment was secretly filmed, including the bathroom where it was trained on the shower.
For three months, every move made by the students, who had come over from Bulgaria to work during the summer could be observed.

Miss Amokovareva told Bay News 9: "I'm feeling very bad. This is terrible. I never expect that this thing can happen to me or my friend." 

WHITEY'S MOLL CATHERINE GREIG FLOGS HOME FOR $1

WHITEY

GREIG

MOB King pin James 'Whitey' Bulger's moll has sold her share in her family's Boston home for just $1 to her twin sister.
Catherine Greig, who went on the run with the one time leader of the Winter Hill Gang for 16-years now faces charges of harboring a fugitive.
So in a bid to protect herself from penalties imposed by the criminal or civil courts she sold the house and land in South Boston to Margaret McCusker, according to a filing with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.
Greig also sought to protect her $343,700 home in Quincy by declaring it covered by the state's Homestead Act, the Boston Globe.
During Greig's detention hearing, her attorney, Kevin Reddington, told the judge that his client was a "kind, gentle person" who had a "loving personality."

OLD WEST ACTOR PAUL DOERING BLASTED CROWD

WILD BUNCH

IT WAS pistols at dawn, except the people he shot were unarmed tourists watching a mock old west gun battle. 
Paul Doering, 49, managed to blast three people at a reenactment by the Dakota Wild Bunch, when for some reason his weapon contained live rounds instead the blanks they usually use. 
Thankfully no one was fatally injured but the bullets did shatter a leg bone of Carrol Knutson, 65, hit the forearm and elbow of John Ellis, 48 and caused minor injuries to Jose Pruneda, 53.
Investigators have not made any comments on why the incident  happened at the Hill City tourist town in North Dakota, or said whether they think the shootings were accidental.    

CONWOMAN ALICIA TOLTON FAKED CANCER FOR CASH

FAKER

A TWISTED cancer con-woman who faked the disease for cash donations from her friends and relatives has been jailed for her devious scheme.
Scam artist Alicia Tolton, 27, shaved her hair, donned a bandana and told people was suffering from ovarian and breast cancer, keeping up the scam for more than 18 months. 
But she told pals she needed help to raise the money to pay for surgery and other medical bills and with their help she organized a benefit for herself, ordering and soliciting tickets, t-shirts and raffles.
Prosecutor Kate McGill told the court in Norristown, PA: "She took advantage of people’s goodwill in probably the most despicable way possible by pretending to have cancer, so that she could solicit money and gifts from people.